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Software => Computer programming => Topic started by: mysons57 on March 22, 2005, 10:32:05 PM

Title: corrupt folders they changed to files
Post by: mysons57 on March 22, 2005, 10:32:05 PM

 have 9 folders on one of my drives they all change to a file now i cant open them. in dos they dont show up as a DIR just a file with no (ext) they are all now 32,768kb now one of them had 15 Gbt in it. is there away to change them back to a folder and will they be back as before. Thanks

Title: Re: corrupt folders they changed to files
Post by: johnwill on March 23, 2005, 06:36:21 PM

It sounds like a CHKDSK or SCANDISK found corrupted directory entries and converted them to files.  I'd be reaching for the backups if it were me...  :o